SubscribeThat’s how much trans fat there was in the popcorn that our family consumed last night while watching Star Wars Episode I. Gross.
It seems like popcorn is one of the most-overlooked foods when it comes to trans fat content. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems that there hasn’t been a push to get popcorn trans-fat-free, at least here in the United States. There should be, especially considering how it seems like popcorn is sold by the bucket-full at movie theaters.
Michael responded on 29 Aug 2006 at 8:37 pm #
There was a move to ‘healthify’ movie popcorn 10 years ago. They moved to use different oils that did drop the amount of transfat in the popcorn. Ultimately the change ‘failed’. It turns out that the change was not customer driven. Instead it was imposed by ‘health nazis’ who insisted that the amount of fat had to be reduced. The result was bad tasting popcorn.
Since theaters make most of their money via consession sales, they eventually moved back to the great tasting stuff that will kill you.